Jan Grue

• Gugushvili, Alexi; Dokken, Therese; Grue, Jan & Finnvold, Jon Erik (2023). Early-life impairments, chronic health conditions, and income mobility. British Journal of Sociology. ISSN 0007-1315. 75(1), p. 56–64. doi: 10.1111/1468-4446.13064. Full text in Research Archive
• Gugushvili, Alexi; Grue, Jan; Dokken, Therese & Finnvold, Jon Erik (2023). No evidence that social-democratic welfare states equalize valued outcomes for individuals with disabilities. Social Science and Medicine. ISSN 0277-9536. 339. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116361. Full text in Research Archive
• Grue, Jan (2023). The CRPD and the economic model of disability: undue burdens and invisible work. Disability & Society. ISSN 0968-7599. p. 1–17. doi: 10.1080/09687599.2023.2255734. Full text in Research Archive
• Grue, Jan & Alnes, Silje (2023). Disability and employability: A case study of the rhetoric of neoliberal inclusionism. In Hughes, Jessica & Bartesaghi, Mariaelena (Ed.), Disability in Dialogue. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISSN 9789027214089. p. 49–66. doi: 10.1075/ds.33.03gru.
• Grue, Jan (2023). The double bind of social legitimacy: On disability, the sick role, and invisible work. Sociology of Health and Illness. ISSN 0141-9889. 46(1), p. 78–94. doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13692. Full text in Research Archive
• Grue, Jan (2023). Rethinking utopia : Posthumanism, transhumanism, and disability. In Lid, Inger Marie; Rembis, Micheal & Steinfeld, Edward (Ed.), Rethinking Disability and Human Rights : Participation, Equality and Citizenship . Routledge. ISSN 978-0-367-51174-6. p. 45–59. doi: 10.4324/9781003052708.
• Grue, Jan (2022). Material Bodies, Bodies of Narrative. English language notes. ISSN 0013-8282. 60(2), p. 177–179. doi: 10.1215/00138282-9890857.
• Grue, Jan (2022). Funksjonshemning - der kropp møter samfunn. In Frønes, Ivar & Kjølsrød, Lise (Ed.), Det norske samfunn - Bind 3. Gyldendal Akademisk. ISSN 9788205572324. p. 153–175.
• Grue, Jan (2022). The Death of Others. On the Narrative Rhetoric of Neoliberal Thanatopolitics. Disability Studies Quarterly (DSQ). ISSN 1041-5718. 42(1). doi: 10.18061/dsq.v42i1.7799. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) are deeply controversial topics both within and beyond disability studies, involving issues of structural ableism, discrimination, and the right to self-determination. A common defence of the legalization of PAS, as distinct from euthanasia, rests on the right of an individual to freely choose when to end one's life. This essay makes an intervention in this debate by examining the rhetoric of media and cultural narratives that directly and indirectly address the issue of PAS and autonomous choice. Considering these narratives from a biopolitical point of view, I argue that contemporary thanatopolitical narratives draw on a particular rhetorical mode, known as "parrhesiastic rhetoric" or anti-rhetoric. This mode helps frame the testimony of extremely vulnerable individuals as a supremely credible argument in favor of the legalization of PAS. Moreover, it engenders sympathy rather than identification with these narrative subjects, ensuring that the death that is being justified remains at a distance from the reader, safely positioned as the death of others. I further argue that this narrative rhetoric supports a particular, neoliberal conception of autonomy, in which individual subjects are dynamic, rational and self-directing. In neoliberal thanatos political discourse, the choice to die is seen as fundamentally an outcome of individual, informed decision-making. Against this atomistic framework, I deploy the analyses of biopolitical disability studies to contribute to a better understanding of the historical, socio-economic, cultural, and rhetorical forces that shape contemporary debates over euthanasia and PAS.

• Grue, Jan (2021). Det alltid allerede ekskluderte. Om beboelige verdener. In Bostad, Inga (Eds.), Å høre hjemme i verden. Introduksjon til en pedagogisk hjemstedsfilosofi.. Spartacus. ISSN 978-82-304-0291-7. p. 113–132.
• Grue, Jan (2021). Bør "spesialpedagogikk" være et eget felt? In Torjussen, Lars Petter Storm & Hilt, Line Torbjørnsen (Ed.), Grunnspørsmål i pedagogikken. Fagbokforlaget. ISSN 9788245035476.
• Vågan, Andre; Olsson, Ann Britt Sandvin; Arntzen, Cathrine; Rise, Marit By; Grue, Jan & Haugland, Trude [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2021). Rethinking long-term condition management: An actor-level framework. Sociology of Health and Illness. ISSN 0141-9889. 43(2), p. 392–407. doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13228. Full text in Research Archive
• Grue, Jan (2021). Ablenationalists Assemble. On Disability in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies. ISSN 1757-6458. 15(1), p. 1–18. doi: 10.3828/jlcds.2021.1. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Superheroes are often disabled, either literally or metaphorically. Their exceptional powers and abilities may be balanced by weakness in order to engender audience sympathy or identification, or to provide a source of narrative obstacles. Although superhero stories are not necessarily about disability, they have become one of the most accessible and popular formats in which disability is a consistently salient trope and integral part of the narrative machinery. The article argues that the use of disability in current superhero narratives, exemplified by the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), is best understood through the theoretical lens of narrative prosthesis and ablenationalism. In the MCU, a core function of disability is to provide heroes with a yearning for normality and a desire to be productive members of a community. The interlinked narratives of the MCU effectively depict many of its protagonists as supercrips, framing disability as intrinsically linked to a heroic struggle to fit in with non-disabled society.

• Grue, Jan (2021). “A Kind of Purity”: Inanimacy, Disability, and Posthumanist Prefigurations in John Williams’ Stoner. In Hagberg, Garry (Eds.), Fictional Worlds and the Moral Imagination. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 978-3-030-55048-6. p. 175–190. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-55049-3. Full text in Research Archive
• Grue, Jan (2020). On the transhumanist imaginary and the biopolitics of contingent embodiment. New Literary History. ISSN 0028-6087. 51(4), p. 805–823. doi: 10.1353/NLH.2020.0050.
• Lundblad, Michael & Grue, Jan (2020). Companion Prosthetics: Avatars of Animality and Disability. In McHugh, Susan; McKay, Robert & Miller, John (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Animals and Literature. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 978-3-030-39772-2. p. 557–574. Show summary

  One of the most commercially successful films of all time, Avatar (2009) is a blockbuster hit that provides a good example for investigating how disability and animality are far more intertwined and complicated than they might appear at first glance. We identify key scenes in Avatar in order to explore what we call “companion prosthetics”, in which transhuman and posthuman interactions and becomings have the potential for being more symbiotic, helping to deconstruct simplistic binaries such as able/disabled and human/animal. Different kinds of prosthesis need to be considered, such as the distinction between those with compensatory and augmentative goals, and the possibility for prosthetics to be associated with pleasure at times, rather than simply negative aspects of impairment. Jake’s fantasy-made-“real” of transcending his wheelchair by transforming into his avatar body by the end of the film can be seen as both an example of “narrative prosthesis” and a more interesting alternative. Choosing “companion prosthetics” over a “cure”—particularly in terms of the interspecies relationship required for the Na’vi to fly—has the potential for modelling utopian, posthumanist, and anti-speciesist visions.

• Grue, Jan (2020). Jonas og jeg. Om retorikk i litteraturen og litterær identifikasjon. In Mollerin, Kaja Schjerven (Eds.), De menneskelige boliger. En bok om Jens Bjørneboe. Gyldendal Litteratur. ISSN 9788205541153.
• Grue, Jan (2020). Fortellinger om død, verdsetting av liv. In Horn, Morten Andreas; Heggheim Kleiven, Daniel Joachim & Magelssen, Morten (Ed.), Dødshjelp i Norden? Etikk, klinikk og politikk . Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISSN 9788202616571. p. 157–173.
• Grue, Jan & Lundblad, Michael (2019). The Biopolitics of Disability and Animality in Harriet McBryde Johnson. In Watson, Nick J. & Vehmas, Simo (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies. 2nd Edition . Routledge. ISSN 9781138365308. doi: 10.4324/9780429430817-9.
• Grue, Jan (2019). Inclusive Marginalisation? A Critical Analysis of the Concept of Disability, Its Framings and Their Implications in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Nordic Journal of Human Rights. ISSN 1891-8131. 37(1), p. 3–17. doi: 10.1080/18918131.2019.1589165. Full text in Research Archive

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• Grue, Jan (2021). Hvis jeg faller. En beretning om usynlig arbeid. Gyldendal Litteratur. ISBN 9788205553644. 192 p.
• Grue, Jan (2019). Det var en gang et menneske. Posthumanisme som tanke og tendens. Universitetsforlaget. ISBN 9788215031798. 192 p.

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• Grue, Jan (2024). Blir FN-konvensjon del av norsk lov? [Radio]. NRK Nyhetsmorgen.
• Tønnesson, Johan Laurits; Seierstad, Åsne; Gundersen, Trygve Riiser; Grue, Jan; Ellefsen, Bernhard & Sørheim, Tuva Ørbeck (2023). Om litterær sakprosa, virkning og etterrettelighet. [Radio]. Postkasten SAKLIG! fra Universitetsplassen.
• Dokken, Therese; Finnvold, Jon Erik; Grue, Jan & Gugushvili, Alexi (2023). Inkludering i arbeidslivet - effekt av utdanning over tid.
• Grue, Jan (2023). I speilsalen: Bokanmeldelse av Naomi Kleins "Doppelganger". Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116.
• Grue, Jan (2023). The sick role and critical disability studies: Making invisible work visible.
• Finnvold, Jon Erik; Dokken, Therese; Grue, Jan & Gugushvili, Alexi (2023). Intergenerational educational mobility, disabilities and chronic conditions in Norway .
• Finnvold, Jon Erik; Dokken, Therese; Grue, Jan & Gugushvili, Alexi (2023). Growing up with a disability in Norway: Towards equality in educational outcomes?
• Grue, Jan (2023). Vitenskap på liv og død. Om Benjamin Labatuts "The MANIAC". Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116.
• Grue, Jan (2023). #Let’sTalkAboutDance. Conversation with Claire Cunningham.
• Grue, Jan (2023). Å skrive en bok som ligner verden. Om sakprosa, skjønnlitteratur og forpliktelser til virkeligheten . Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0800-336X.
• Grue, Jan (2023). On Disability and Invisible Work .
• Dokken, Therese; Finnvold, Jon Erik; Gugushvili, Alexi & Grue, Jan (2023). Determinants of inclusion in the labour market – the effect of education over time.
• Grue, Jan (2023). Holtes halve. [Radio]. Podcast. Show summary

  Samtale mellom NAV-direktør Hans Christian Holte og Jan Grue.

• Grue, Jan (2023). Why fictional villains are often portrayed as disabled. [Radio]. National Public Radio.
• Grue, Jan (2023). Panel: Lea Ypi, Jan Grue, Dina Nayeri.
• Grue, Jan (2023). A Conversation with Jan Grue.
• Grue, Jan (2023). Inkludering – om menneskelig mangfold .
• Grue, Jan (2023). The disabled villain: why sensitivity reading can’t kill off this ugly trope. Guardian (Dig. ed.). ISSN 1756-3224.
• Grue, Jan (2023). Sensitivitet for djevelen. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116.
• Grue, Jan (2023). A wheelchair in the world.
• Grue, Jan (2022). Little Atoms 805 - Jan Grue's I Live A Life Like Yours. [Radio]. Little Atoms.
• Grue, Jan (2022). Superheroes are harmless monsters, spruced-up freaks, who exist in order to inspire. Irish Times. ISSN 0791-5144.
• Grue, Jan (2022). Read On. [Internet]. Read On - The Audiobook Show from RNIB.
• Grue, Jan (2022). Diversity in academia.
• Grue, Jan (2022). Å skrive en bok som likner verden.
• Grue, Jan (2022). Addressing Inequity in the Social and Digital Determinants of Health .
• Grue, Jan; Lid, Inger Marie; Andresen, Nils August; Herz, Nancy; Elvestad, Lilly Ann & Ørstavik, Sunniva (2022). Kunnskapsbehov og politiske utfordringer. Show summary

  Panelsamtale ledet av Inger Marie Lid (VID), med statssekretær Nancy Herz (Arbeids- og inkluderingsdepartementet), Sunniva Ørstavik (tidl. likestillings- og diskrimineringsombud), Lilly Ann Elvestad (FFO), Nils August Andresen (Minerva) og Jan Grue (UiO).

• Grue, Jan (2022). Virtuost, rørende – og upålitelig. Om Emmanuel Carreres "Yoga". Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116.
• Grue, Jan (2022). Lekende og søkende om alle tings ende. Om Geoff Dyers "The Last Days of Roger Federer". Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116.
• Grue, Jan (2022). Funksjonshemning og inkludering i det 21. århundre.
• Grue, Jan (2022). Universitetsplassen: Funksjonshemmede - problem eller ressurs? [Radio]. Podcast.
• Grue, Jan (2022). Claiming Space for the Self: Limitation and Liberation.
• Grue, Jan (2022). “Tell Me the Story of Your Body”: Emily Rapp Black and Jan Grue on Creativity and Disability.
• Grue, Jan (2022). Lørdagsgjest i Dagsrevyen. [TV]. NRK.
• Grue, Jan (2022). En samtale om ambisjoner på barns vegne.
• Grue, Jan (2022). Mangfoldet i mangfoldet. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116.
• Grue, Jan (2021). On disability and discrimination. [Radio]. KERA, NPR.
• Grue, Jan (2021). Det usynlige arbeidet. Camara Lundestad Joof og Jan Grue. Vinduet. ISSN 0042-6288.
• Grue, Jan (2021). The high cost of living in a disabling world. The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077.
• Grue, Jan (2021). Intervju Dagbladet. [Newspaper]. Dagbladet.
• Grue, Jan (2021). Seeing Yourself in the Gaze of Others: On Disability and the Freedom of Youth.
• Grue, Jan (2021). Drivkraft. [Radio]. NRK P2.
• Grue, Jan (2021). Kulturstripa. [Radio]. NRK P2.
• Grue, Jan (2021). Om funksjonshemmedes muligheter i samfunnet. [Radio]. NRK P1.
• Grue, Jan (2021). Det usynlige arbeidet.
• Grue, Jan (2021). Intervju Aftenposten. [Newspaper]. Aftenposten.
• Grue, Jan (2021). Kroppen i verden. Om funksjonshemning og praktisk kunnskap.
• Grue, Jan (2021). Den norske idealborgeren.
• Kaufmann, Mareile & Grue, Jan (2021). Hva vi snakker om når vi snakker om digitaliseringens politikk. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0800-336X. doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-3053-2021-01-02-02. Full text in Research Archive
• Grue, Jan (2021). Funksjonshemning og begrepsbruk: Internseminar Store Norske Leksikon.
• Grue, Jan (2021). Funksjonshemmedes rettigheter og legers rolle. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening. ISSN 0029-2001. 141(6), p. 1–3. doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.21.0238.
• Grue, Jan (2021). Writing about bodies: A conversation on research, embodiment, and writing the invisible.
• Grue, Jan (2020). Norwegian Authors You Should Know. Panel discussion. [Internet]. Scandinavia House.
• Grue, Jan (2020). Grensene for mitt språk. Vinduet. ISSN 0042-6288.
• Grue, Jan (2020). Å se verden med språk. Etterord til "Inn i sakens prosa".
• Grue, Jan (2020). Omsorgens pris: Samtale med Olaug Nilssen om romanen "Yte etter evne, få etter behov".
• Grue, Jan (2020). Derfor skal du lese Hilary Mantel. [Radio]. Agenda Res Publica Media: Podcast.
• Grue, Jan (2020). Manifest 2.0. Anmeldelse av Bår Stenviks "Det store spillet". Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839.
• Grue, Jan (2020). Å se verden gjennom språk (Et sakprosaisk manifest). Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847.
• Grue, Jan (2019). Jeg lever et liv som ligner deres. Samtale med Willy Pedersen.
• Grue, Jan (2019). Belønningssystemet vi har nå, er ødeleggende for humanistisk forskning. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847.
• Grue, Jan (2019). Superheltfortellinger handler også om tilpasning til yrkeslivet. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847.
• Grue, Jan (2019). Jeg lever et liv som ligner deres. Samtale med Inger Marie Lid.
• Grue, Jan (2019). Hele mennesker i en fantastisk verden. Samtale med Ingeborg Senneset.
• Grue, Jan (2019). Jeg lever et liv som ligner deres - samtale med Karin Haugen.
• Grue, Jan (2019). Som alle andre? Samtale om identitet knytta til funksjonsnedsettelse.
• Grue, Jan (2019). Sex er et praktisk og logistisk spørsmål. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116.
• Grue, Jan (2019). Sannhet og metode. Bokessay. Klassekampens Bokmagasin.
• Grue, Jan (2019). Hele mennesker i en fantastisk verden. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847. Show summary

  Etter Game of Thrones blir det vanskeligere å fortelle historier der funksjonsnedsettelser er en egenskap som gjør bæreren litt mindre til menneske.

• Grue, Jan (2019). Hva ­mener vi med å være ­menneske? [Newspaper]. Aftenposten.
• Grue, Jan & Lundblad, Michael (2019). Embodying the narrative: Disability and animality in Game of Thrones. Show summary

  This paper asks how narrative tropes linked to disability and animality are deployed in a work of (extremely) popular fiction, namely the television series Game of Thrones (GoT). While disability and animality are often not theorized together, we argue that their sites of intersection are highly productive. By investigating the tensions and possibilities that arise when disability and animality meet, we seek new insight into how different forms of embodiment and different lives are culturally (de)valued.

• Grue, Jan (2019). A Work in Progress: Disability, Biography, and Autotheory.
• Grue, Jan (2019). Disability, Normalcy and the Everyday. Sociology of Health and Illness. ISSN 0141-9889. doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.12837.
• Grue, Jan (2019). Portrettintervju. [Journal]. Apollon.
• Grue, Jan (2019). Identity and disability. Conversation with Tom Shakespeare.
• Grue, Jan (2019). Nytt på nytt. [TV]. NRK.
• Grue, Jan (2019). Portrettintervju. [Newspaper]. Dagen Næringsliv.
• Eriksen, John; Grue, Jan & Vedeler, Janikke Solstad (2022). Homo sapiens, homo ludens. Festskrift til Lars Grue 75 år. OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet. ISSN 978-82-7894-804-0. Show summary

  I anledning Lars Grues 75-års dag, gir NOVA ut notatet Homo sapiens, homo ludens. I alt 17 bidragsytere dekker hans faglige virksomhet om forskning om funksjonshemming og hyller Grue som det lekende menneske han er. Med sine brede kompetanse på flere forskningsfelt, har Grue i mange år vært en viktig medarbeider på NOVA. I festskriftet hylles han av tidligere kolleger, samarbeidspartnere, venner og familie.

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